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MelbourneWest Side Story
Bernstein: West Side Story
Donald Chan; Joey McKneely; Opera Australia; Paul Gallis; Renate Schmitzer
MelbourneSt John Passion - Australian Chamber Choir
Bach: St John Passion, BWV245
Australian Chamber Choir, Voice
MelbourneMetropolis: Night One
Conyngham, Koehne, Moore, Andriessen
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Clark Rundell; Ralph van Raat; Claire Edwardes
MelbourneMetropolis: Night Two
Holdsworth, Vincent, Andriessen
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Clark Rundell; Lior Attar
MelbourneSelby & Friends: Love and Devotion
Schumann C., Schumann, Brahms
Grace Clifford; Timo-Veikko Valve; Kathryn Selby
MelbourneRomeo and Juliet
Mussorgsky, Chopin, Prokofiev
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Stanislav Kochanovsky; Yulianna Avdeeva
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A compelling Parsifal from Victorian Opera in Melbourne
The Australian Youth Orchestra was full of poise and maturity and all the singing was impressive in Roger Hodgman's production.
Vivica Genaux and Sydney's Pinchgut wow Melbourne
Vivica Genaux enjoys huge success in a Melbourne concert of Baroque delights, the first venture of Sydney's Pinchgut Opera Company outside its home turf.
Master masons: Holten’s Meistersinger comes to Melbourne
Having offered a strong feminist reading of Wagner's Ring, could Kasper Holten do the same again for Die Meistersinger? Opera Australia's co-production had moments of excellence, but ultimately left the viewer with more questions than answers
Opera Australia revives its Berlin Bohème
A fine cast led by Maija Kovalevska conveys the timeless beauty and emotion of Puccini’s Parisian melodrama, but the 1930s Berlin setting remains an imperfectly realised transformation.
TAB’s Spartacus' All is fair in love, and gladiator gore
The Australian Ballet’s adaptation of the historic Ancient Roman story fuses violence, seduction, and the anguish of separation. It delivers a mesmerising display of masculinity, through widly explosive battle scenes.
Opera Australia’s Tosca highlights the tyranny of evil Scarpia
Remarkable singers and magnificent sets successfully transpose Puccini’s Tosca to Nazi-occupied Rome, bringing home the horror of tyranny and how possible it is to occur.
